36 Bible Verses about effort

Ye also, giving all diligence to the same, show forth virtue in your faith; and in virtue, knowledge;

Therefore, brethren, give all the more diligence to make your calling and election sure; for doing these things, ye shall never fall.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that ye hope for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless.

Let us therefore make haste to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that has mercy.

I will also make sure with diligence that after my decease ye might remember these things.

Strive to enter in at the narrow gate; for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in and shall not be able.

Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that has nothing to be ashamed of, rightly dividing the word of truth.

holding fast the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

being diligent to guard the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us, and set thou aright the work of our hands upon us; yea, set thou aright the work of our hands.

For out of much preoccupation comes the dream, and the voice of the fool out of a multitude of words.

Procure to come shortly unto me;

Better is a handful with rest than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

Follow peace with everyone and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:

Are ye so foolish? having begun by the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that ye should earnestly persevere in the faith which was given once unto the saints.

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.

Will he esteem thy riches? No, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

Be ye strong, therefore, and do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.

Let us, therefore, follow after the things which make for peace and the edification of each one to the others.

When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou may be delivered from him, lest he drag thee away to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

I am afraid for you, lest I have bestowed labour upon you in vain.

knowing that whatever good thing anyone does, the same shall they receive of the Lord, whether they are slaves or free.

For God is not unjust to forget your work and labour of charity which ye have showed in his name, having helped the saints and helping them.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and with all this the appetite is not filled.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

And I have seen regarding all the works of God that man cannot attain to understand the work that is being done under the sun, because though a man labours to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; even though the wise man says that he knows it, yet he shall not be able to attain it.

Procure to come before winter. Eubulus greets thee, and Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brethren.

Though I might also have reason to confide in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:

Let the LORD recompense thy work and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to cover thyself.

But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly with great desire to see your face.

The blessing of the LORD is that which makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

and thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.

knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.